Office 365 Government plans

Office 365 Government plans are designed for the unique needs of government organizations. They provide all the features and capabilities of Office 365 services in a segmented government cloud community that enables organizations to meet U.S. compliance and security standards.

Office 365 Government plans are available to (1) qualified government entities, including US federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities, and (2) other entities (subject to validation of eligibility) who handle data subject to government regulations and requirements, where use of Office 365 Government is appropriate to meet these regulations and requirements. Each plan is offered as a monthly subscription and can be licensed to an unlimited number of users. Start the free trial to begin the special compliance validation process required for eligibility. Once your organization has been validated, you can begin using the trial. Learn more about eligibility requirements.

Office 365 Government G1

Office 365 Government G3

Office 365 Government G5

All the features of Exchange Online Government Plan 1 plus cloud file storage and sharing, online meetings and instant messaging, HD videoconferencing, intranet and team sites, and other services.

All the features of Office 365 Government Community G1 plus Office desktop applications, personalized search and discovery, self-service business intelligence, enterprise management of apps, eDiscovery tools, hosted voicemail with auto-attendant capabilities, and other services.

All the features of Office 365 Government Community G3 plus unified communications with Skype for Business Server, advanced eDiscovery with predictive coding and text analytics, Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection, personal and organizational analytics, Audio Conferencing, and other services.

Protect against sophisticated threats like phishing and zero-day malware with the ability to investigate and remediate attacks post-breach Advanced personal and organizational analytics with MyAnalytics and Power BI Pro

Audio conferencing to allow invitees to join Microsoft Teams meetings by dialing in from a landline or mobile phone

Make, receive, and transfer calls across a wide range of devices with Cloud PBX

Make domestic or international calls from current or new phone numbers with add-on Calling Plan or bring your own carrier and use Direct Routing 5

Apply out of the box protections such as encrypt-only or do-not-forward policies to sensitive emails with Office 365 Message Encryption

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Office 365 Government G1

All the features of Exchange Online Government Plan 1 plus cloud file storage and sharing, online meetings and instant messaging, HD videoconferencing, intranet and team sites, and other services.

Inform and engage with a company-wide intranet and team sites with SharePoint

Office 365 Government G3

All the features of Office 365 Government Community G1 plus Office desktop applications, personalized search and discovery, self-service business intelligence, enterprise management of apps, eDiscovery tools, hosted voicemail with auto-attendant capabilities, and other services.

Apply out of the box protections such as encrypt-only or do-not-forward policies to sensitive emails with Office 365 Message Encryption

Office 365 Government G5

All the features of Office 365 Government Community G3 plus unified communications with Skype for Business Server, advanced eDiscovery with predictive coding and text analytics, Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection, personal and organizational analytics, Audio Conferencing, and other services.

Protect against sophisticated threats like phishing and zero-day malware with the ability to investigate and remediate attacks post-breach Advanced personal and organizational analytics with MyAnalytics and Power BI Pro

Audio conferencing to allow invitees to join Microsoft Teams meetings by dialing in from a landline or mobile phone

Make, receive, and transfer calls across a wide range of devices with Cloud PBX

Make domestic or international calls from current or new phone numbers with add-on Calling Plan or bring your own carrier and use Direct Routing 5

Apply out of the box protections such as encrypt-only or do-not-forward policies to sensitive emails with Office 365 Message Encryption

All of the Office 365 plans above include:

Guaranteed 99.9% uptime and a financially backed service level agreement.

Eligibility requirements

Office 365 Government plans are available to (1) qualified government entities, including US federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government entities, and (2) other entities (subject to validation of eligibility) who handle data subject to government regulations and requirements, where use of Office 365 Government is appropriate to meet these regulations and requirements. Each plan is offered as a monthly subscription and can be licensed to an unlimited number of users.

A government organization is typically (a) any government agency, department office, division, unit, or other entity of state or local government or (b) any county, borough, commonwealth, city, municipality, town, township, special purpose district, or similar type of government instrumentality established by laws of customer’s state and located in the customer’s state jurisdiction and geographic boundaries or (c) any other entity in the customer’s state expressly authorized by the laws of the customer’s state to purchase under state contracts.

Microsoft reserves the right to verify eligibility at any time and suspend the service for ineligible customers.

1. For subscriptions that do not include the fully installed Office applications: Users can connect the following versions of Outlook to their business-class email so they can use the rich client application they already know: the latest version of Outlook, Outlook 2013, and Outlook 2011 for Mac. Previous versions of Outlook, such as Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007, may work with Office 365 with reduced functionality. This compatibility with Outlook does not include the Exchange Online Kiosk or Office 365 F1 plans.
2. PSTN capabilities in Microsoft Teams require Phone System (included with G5 or available as an add-in), Calling Plans (add-in), and/or Direct Routing (included with Phone System).
3. Publisher and Access: Windows PC client program and/or features only; cannot be used across devices. Most plans that do not include the desktop version of Office work with the latest version of Office, Office 2013, and Office 2011 for Mac. Previous versions of Office, such as Office 2010 and Office 2007, may work with Office 365 with reduced functionality. This compatibility with Office does not include the Exchange Online Kiosk or Office 365 F1 plans.
4. Unlimited personal cloud storage for qualifying plans for subscriptions of five or more users, otherwise 1 TB/user. Microsoft will initially provide 1 TB/user of OneDrive for Business storage, which admins can increase to 5 TB/user. Request additional storage by contacting Microsoft support. Storage up to 25 TB/user is provisioned in OneDrive for Business. Beyond 25 TB, storage is provisioned as 25 TB SharePoint team sites to individual users.
5. Available for purchase as an add-on for $24.00 user/month. Price includes both international and domestic calling plans. Domestic-only calling plans are available for $12.00.